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- 70Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleLos Angeles TimesRobert AbeleThe small industry of documentaries about Syria shouldn't deter you from the affecting pull of This Is Home: A Refugee Story, Alexandra Shiva's heartwarming if conventional portrait of four refugee Syrian families navigating new lives in Baltimore.
- Ultimately, This Is Home is a film which focuses on opportunity, rather than oppression, and a timely reminder that humanity knows no borders.
- 70VarietyGuy LodgeVarietyGuy LodgeThis Is Home gestures toward a more detailed, heterogeneous understanding of these war victims as human beings, characterizing its four chosen families in detailed, individual terms, and listening attentively to their varied expressions of ambition and concern for their new future.
- 50The Film StageDaniel SchindelThe Film StageDaniel SchindelWhere it could do more to work inside its characters’ heads, it pulls back.